While CES is, by name, a consumer showcase, there is still an undercurrent of developer goodness to the event. Developers are just as interested as consumers in new hardware, because they need to know which cool pieces of tech to develop for. I had the wonderful opportunity to chat with Adobe evangelist Renaun Erickson about BlackBerry PlayBook development, and the rich tools available to developers that make life easier.

It’s been about a month since we had our first release of the BlackBerry® Tablet OS SDK for Adobe® AIR, and we’re back with more for you to play with! There’s a few exciting things I wanted to talk to you about with this release, so once we are done here, make sure you get version 0.9.1 of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK beta!

BlackBerry OS UI Component bug fixes: Some tweaks were made to the API to make it better for you, and some beta bugs were fixed as well.

Windows 64-bit support: The installers now work in Windows 64-bit.

Linux support: Simulator and BlackBerry OS SDK for Adobe AIR now supported on Linux. Let’s hear some feedback from the community on this one.

Flash Builder 4.5 (Burrito / Flex Mobile ‘Hero’) Support: The plug-in installers will work with either Flash Builder 4.0 or the pre-release version of Flash Builder Burrito from Adobe’s website.